The Power of Love- "Awakening Love"

Awakening Love

February Monthly Theme: The Power of Love

What if love is not something we fall into, but something we awaken to?

Not a feeling we chase, not a mood that comes and goes, but a living spiritual power already present—waiting for our recognition, our consent, our embodiment. This month, as we explore The Power of Love, we begin with this truth: love is not passive. Love is not weak. Love is not naïve. Love is the very geist of Spirit moving through human history, consciousness, and community.

Ernest Holmes reminds us, “Love is the self-givingness of Spirit through the individual.” Love is Spirit giving Itself expression as us. To awaken love, then, is to awaken to who and what we already are.

Love as a Spiritual Law in Action

In Science of Mind, love is not merely an attribute of God—it is a principle. It is Law in action. Love responds. Love harmonizes. Love organizes reality around the consciousness that embodies it.

Holmes teaches, “We are surrounded by an infinite good which presses against us, seeking to express itself through us.” Love is that infinite good. It is always pressing, always inviting, always available. The question is never whether love is present. The question is whether we are present to love.

To awaken love is to align our thoughts, our words, and our actions with this harmonizing power. It is to choose compassion when fear would be easier. It is to choose connection when separation feels familiar. It is to trust that love, rightly applied, does its work through Law.

Dr. King and the Moral Imagination of Love

This Sunday, we are honored to celebrate Black History Month and to welcome our dear brother Gerald Rivers, known as “The Voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” His presence invites us into remembrance—not nostalgia, but responsibility.

Dr. King did not speak of love as sentimentality. He spoke of agape—love that seeks the good of all, love that refuses to cooperate with injustice, love that stands firm without becoming hardened. This was not theoretical love. It was practiced love. Disciplined love. Courageous love.

Dr. King understood, as we do in Science of Mind, that consciousness precedes form. Change the inner agreement, and the outer conditions must respond. Love was not only his ethic—it was his strategy.

When we hear that familiar voice again, something stirs in us. Sound carries memory. Memory awakens conscience. And conscience asks us a holy question: What is love asking of me now?

Awakening Love Within

Awakening love begins internally. It begins with stillness. With listening. With the willingness to notice where we have fallen asleep to our own tenderness, our own courage, our own capacity to care.

Holmes wrote, “The greatest discovery of our time is that a change in human consciousness can change the conditions of human life.” Love awakens first as a change in consciousness. A softening. A remembering. A decision to live from the inside out.

We awaken love when we tell the truth with kindness. When we set boundaries without bitterness. When we forgive—not to excuse harm, but to free our own souls from carrying what no longer serves.

Awakening Love in Community

Love does not awaken fully in isolation. It matures in relationship. It becomes visible in community.

Dr. King spoke often of the Beloved Community—not as an abstract ideal, but as a way of being together grounded in dignity, justice, and shared humanity. We echo that call today as we continue to cultivate circles of deep listening, shared leadership, and radical hospitality.

Love becomes real when we practice it:

• When we listen to understand, not to defend

• When we make room for many voices

• When we commit to walking together, especially when it is uncomfortable

Holmes reminds us, “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” A community centered in love will reflect love back into the world.

Love as a Spiritual Assignment

Love always asks something of us.

It asks us to stand when it would be easier to stay silent. It asks us to speak when truth trembles in our throats. It asks us to act—not from outrage alone, but from spiritual conviction.

This is the power of love—not that it soothes us, but that it transforms us. Love reorganizes priorities. Love disrupts complacency. Love insists that faith must be lived.

As we begin this month, and as we gather to hear a voice that once helped awaken a nation, may we remember: the work is not finished. The call continues. Love is still speaking.

A Closing Blessing

May love awaken in our thinking. May love find its voice through our words. May love become visible through our actions.

And may we remember that the power we seek is the power already present—the power of Love, alive in us, moving through us, and calling us forward.

Closing Invitation & Practice

As we move into this week, I invite you not to rush past love, but to inquire of it.

Ask yourself, gently and honestly:

Who do I love?Not just in theory, but in practice.Who has my care, my patience, my presence?

Who loves me?Can I allow myself to receive that love—without suspicion, without shrinking, without apology?

And most importantly:What would Love do, right now?Not later. Not when conditions change.Right here. Right now. In this moment.

Love always knows the next right step.

Three Affirmations for the Week

Let these affirmations become companions as you move through your days:

1. I awaken to Love as the guiding intelligence of my life.

   Love informs my thoughts, my choices, and my responses.

2. I am both a giver and a receiver of divine Love.

   Love flows to me and through me freely and abundantly.

3. In every moment, I choose the action Love would take.

   And I trust that Love, expressed, heals and transforms.

May love awaken love within us. May love recognize itself through us. And may we have the courage to live what we say we believe.

You are not Alone. You are loved, loving and lovable. You are also a vital part of a loving community of Ahiah Angels.

Let me know how I can support you...

Blessings and Light surround us,

RevMichael (Kisumma)